Page 9 - Max Moran News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The Justice Department said in a court filing Wednesday that it plans to “vigorously” defend an exemption allowing religious schools to discriminate against LGBTQ students, a surprise announcement with phrasing that worried activists who saw it as promising action even beyond what the law currently requires. It was the latest development in a First-Amendment lawsuit, Hunter v. Department of Education, in which 40 students at religious universities sued the government for providing funding to schools with discriminatory policies. The DOJ filing came in response to a motion from the Council...

Photo: Win McNamee, Getty Images Last week, the White House announced a slate of nominations to fill roles in the Biden administration. Among them is attorney Neil MacBride, who has been tapped to be general counsel for the Treasury Department. Right now, MacBride is a partner at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell. He formerly served as Biden’s chief counsel on the Senate. Oh, and he once sued the very department he’ll be working in on behalf of energy giant Exxon. For an administration that has pushed a whole of government approach to tackle the climate crisis, it’s an odd choice.

President Joe Biden campaigned saying that the climate crisis is the “number one threat” facing the U.S. But on Wednesday, his administration confirmed it will defend a major Arctic oil and gas drilling project that the Trump administration fast-tracked.

Yves here. While most Americans who follow politics know that the appointment of ambassadors includes quite a few patronage postings, few follow the sausage-making on that beat. This post fills that lapse, and shows the cooking is as rotten as you’d expect. And dispatching to Rahm to Japan makes perfect sense, in a sick sort of way. The Japanese are not know nfor racial tolerance, so misdeeds against people of color on his watch would not register with them as an issue. By Max Moran, a research director for the personnel team at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)’s Revolvi...

New Dem-Majority Senate Must Assess Financial Reg Appointees Through Climate-Tinted Lens  It is no longer tolerable to confirm nominees who lack awareness of the scale of our climate emergency and the immense work needed to address it across all aspects of American life. WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 11: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a press conference on the coronavirus outbreak at the U.S. Capitol March 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. Schumer and other members of ... WASHINGTON, ...